"I promised them at the time when they actually go, I'll bring some sausages for you," farmer Rachel Rivers told BBC.

"I gave those animals the best quality of life I could ever give until the time they go to slaughter and they go into the food chain," she added. "You do feel sad at the end of it... but to bring them down for [the firefighters] was a good way of saying 'thank you'."

The farm allowed the pigs to live an additional six months after the fire.

The firefighters from the Pewsey Fire Station removed pictures of the feast from their Facebook pages, but BBC reports that the firefighters thanked Rivers for bringing the sausages.